When I review Xerxes’ achievements, I praise him, not for having yoked the Hellespont, but for having crossed it. But I can see that Nero will neither sail through the Isthmus nor complete his digging. Apollonius of Tyana Read Quote
You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence. Apollonius of Tyana Read Quote
Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself. Apollonius of Tyana Read Quote
I pray as follows: May justice reign, may the laws not be broken, may the wise men be poor, and the poor men rich, without sin. Apollonius of Tyana Read Quote
The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one’s power to those humans who deserve it. Apollonius of Tyana Read Quote
A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once. Apollonius of Tyana Read Quote
I asked certain rich men if they felt embittered. ‘How could we not?’ they said. So I asked them what caused this anguish. They blamed their wealth. Apollonius of Tyana Read Quote
I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future. Apollonius of Tyana Read Quote
Every argument is incapable of helping unless it is singular and addressed to a single person. Therefore, one who discourses in any other way presumably does so from love of reputation. Apollonius of Tyana Read Quote
